Re: hot swap of failed drive is scheduled; RAID 5 protection on disk drives;

Eric wrote:
The disk drive has failed and IBM will do a hot swap
of the drive while the system is up.
Love that RAID 5 protection.


Then Eric wrote:
Lukas, your comment is eerily similar to what our
Windows and Linux network administrator said this morning!
Our admin pooh-poohed our System i again, saying that all
servers have been using RAID5 for years with hot-swap
capability, and WHY is our junky System i disk drive
failing in the first place!!
He makes comments like that just to get my dander up.
But he has not yet recommended a Linux-based ERP system,
so I believe we will continue running JD Edwards World
on the System I until he comes up with something better!


Eric -

Yawn...Must be a slow day at Ameristar Fence.

However, you should remind your admin that in 1978 Norman Ken Ouchi of IBM
was awarded the first patent for what would eventually become known as RAID
5, so he should thank Big Blue for pioneering the technology that eventually
made RAID available for his network servers.

By the way - the acronym RAID, which originally stood for 'Redundant Array
of Inexpensive Disks', AFAIK is defined by IBM as 'Redundant Array of
Independent Disks' (i.e., on the IBM platform this equates with the
Spendmoney command)

- sjl